When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
SINCLAIR LEWISThe one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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